Chosu Clan/Related Articles

Parent topics

• Japan [r]: East Asian country of about 3,000 islands; one of the world's largest economies; population about 125,000,000. ^[e]
• Tokugawa Shogunate [r]: A period of feudal but reasonably centralized government of Japan between 1603 and 1868, founded by Ieyasu Tokugawa after a period of civil war; also called the Edo Period or Edo bakufu; ended by the Meiji Restoration ^[e]
• Meiji Restoration [r]: Beginning in 1868, the major change in Japanese governance coming from the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate not only restoration of the monarchy as the real Head of State, but also the modernization of the form of government from feudal to technical-bureaucratic, the end of the samurai class and the development of a national military ^[e]

Subtopics

• Aritomo Yamagata [r]: In the Meiji Restoration, architect of the Imperial Japanese Army, military commander and three-time Chief of Staff; Three-time President of the Privy Council; two-time Prime Minister of Japan and genro (elder statesman) of immense influence ^[e]
• Giichi Tanaka [r]: Japanese military officer, statesman, and Prime Minister in 1929; cabinet resigned to protest increasing militarization and the assassination of Chang Tso-Lin ^[e]

Other related topics

• Satsuma Clan [r]: Centered on Kagoshima in the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, one of the two major clans that was in opposition to the Tokugawa Shogunate, and, after the Meiji Restoration, supplanted their rival Chosu Clan in the Imperial Japanese Army; they were always dominant in the Imperial Japanese Navy ^[e]
• Constitutional Government Party [r]: Add brief definition or description Seiyūkai
• Three Crows [r]: Formed in 1921, a political faction within the Imperial Japanese Army, which wanted Army modernization, purging of the samurai traditions of the Choshu Clan, and the conquest of Manchuria ^[e]
• Kazushige Ugaki [r]: Imperial Japanese Army general, leader of the Control faction in Japan's pre-WWII militarization, and a cabinet officer ^[e]